Sunday, July 31, 2011

Saturday, July 30, 2011

Ben Stiller-Vince Vaughn flick to film here

by Jennifer Brett

We hear funny guys Vince Vaughn and Ben Stiller are coming to town for a movie called “Neighborhood Watch.”

This is billed as a “science fiction comedy.” They play dads who hang out in their subdivisions just being dudes but then they stumble onto some big conspiracy. So Atlanta is the perfect place for that movie.

Filming for this project cranks up this fall. Their folks are already in town poking around, scouting locations.

We also hear that the guys want to stay in style and are contracting with a local high-end leasing company to book them into some ritzy digs for the time that they are here.

An intimate evening with space for 27 guests, the dinner will be served in our private dining room and is $38 per person, plus tax and gratuity. To reserve a spot for this special experience, please call 404.373.3331.

Trackside Re-Opening Grows Near

The long wait for Trackside Tavern’s re-opening is almost over. In fact, it’s just days, maybe even hours away. Really.

“The place looks beautiful,” said owner Doc Al Czarkowski in an e-mail. The staff is hired and trained, the glassware is washed and on the shelves. The beer is in the fridge and the liquor is in the cabinet.

Indeed, cold beer and clean glasses leave little doubt the pouring of the first libation is imminent and according to a July 21 post on Trackside’s Facebook, “there is “nothing ‘tentative’ about it anymore.”

But for now, ‘mum’ is the word on an exact day and time the Decatur “Cheers-like" bar will open.

“We are going to try our best to have a soft opening to avoid a line of people waiting at the door at the same time,” said Czarkowski.

The popular neighborhood bar on College Avenue closed for more than two years due to a fire that destroyed the tavern. The 1917 building was demolished and rebuilt from the ground up.

Monday, July 18, 2011

A student-run film theatre on Georgia State University campus. Causing a cinematic commotion since 1991, Cinefest shows a variety of movies that ranges from indie, foreign, documentary, cult-classics and even your favorite mall movies.

Thursday, July 21: Newly Restored 35mm Print of "SHAMPOO" - Special One Night Only Screening

Monday, July 11, 2011

Goodbye, Sears building. Adios, City Hall East. Hello, Ponce City Market.The new owners of City Hall East, a historic structure in Atlanta near Midtown, are planning an organic garden, a "green" roof top and a foodie market akin to the Ferry Building in San Francisco or Pike Place Market in Seattle. They also plan to shed the names the building has been called, as far back as 1926, to rebrand it as Ponce City Market.

Plans call for hundreds of residential units, 2,000 internal parking spaces, loft-style, upscale offices, retailers -- possibly national chains -- and a foodie destination with “farm to table” vendors and local restaurants. The North Avenue side of the building could have an organic farm to supply the market.

Still, no new tenants were announced Monday as Mayor Kasim Reed and executives with Jamestown Properties celebrated the long-awaited sale at a news conference atop the brick building.

Nonetheless, if everything comes to pass, it will be a big change for the hulking building that for years sat mostly empty along one of Atlanta’s busiest arteries, Ponce de Leon Avenue. Jamestown is paying Atlanta $27 million to buy the building and plans to spend $180 million redeveloping it for an early 2014 reopening. The project will benefit from opportunity zone tax credits through the Atlanta Development Authority and other tax credits from the U.S. Department of the Interior.Full story at AJC

Sunday, July 10, 2011

From: AJCThe Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionBy Rachel TobinOn Monday, Mayor Kasim Reed is expected to announce the long-awaited sale of City Hall East to Jamestown Properties. The 85-year-old building -- once a huge Sears complex -- has been a white elephant of sorts along one of Atlanta’s most central thoroughfares.When then-Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson announced the deal to buy the Sears building for $12 million in 1990, he called it "the deal of the century." Less than five years later, renovation costs had skyrocketed and lease income didn't materialize, in part because of limitations on the debt used to finance it. Atlanta never fully occupied the 2 million square foot building, which is one considered one of the largest in the Southeast.

Thursday, July 7, 2011

When you first walk into Isabella’s Café the first thing that you notice is the upbeat international music playing. Then you notice the aroma of international spices, like curry. But with a name like Isabella’s you’d think this was an Italian restaurant; however owner, Wambui Maina, is Kenyan.

“I named the restaurant after my mother. She was one of the first female physicians in Kenya. It was a way for me to honor her,” said Maina. The restaurant, which opened in July 2010, is in an old 1920’s building on West College Avenue at the edge of Kirkwood. The space Isabella’s is in used to be a coffee shop that closed around 2008 and stayed empty for two years. “I love Decatur because it’s like a foodie town. People look for innovative menus and support local restaurants. I thought this space was the perfect place to open my eclectic restaurant,” said Maina.

The eclectic menu offers American dishes with a twist, as Maina adds the flavors she loves from her native Kenya and New Orleans – where she first lived when she moved to this country at age 13. Dishes like the Kenyan-style Chunky Beef Stew over Basmati rice, Chicken Masala, chipotle-maple black beans, and cheeseburgers made with Isabella’s home-made pimento cheese are a hit with diners.Full story

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

--After a full day of filming in Oakhurst for Billy Bob Thornton's movie "Jayne Mansfield's Car"the film crew are packing up and Donovans Discount store will become a Church again.Earlier today Billy Bob Thornton and Kevin Bacon were both there poising for pictures and giving autographs.See photos at Decatur Patch

Saturday, July 2, 2011

Some of the filming of Jayne Mansfield's Car will be filmed in Oakhurstthis week.

From nola.comThe film, which will be directed by Billy Bob Thornton -- his first time behind the lens on a non-documentary since 2001's "Daddy and Them" -- and which will star Robert Duvall, John Hurt, Kevin Bacon, Robert Patrick and Ray Stevenson, will begin shooting this summer in Georgia, according to Deadline.

That's because the movie, despite the title, doesn't really appear to be about that ill-fated 1967 night on U.S. 90 after all. Rather, it's a dramatic comedy, one that "revolves around the culture clash of two families, from different continents, in 1969."

That's two years after Mansfield's death.

A report on Collider expands on the synopsis: "The story revolves around a guy whose wife leaves him for an Englishman and moves away to England. 20 or 30 years later, in 1969, the wife dies but wishes to be returned to Alabama where she grew up, so the English family meets -- and clashes with -- the original family that she abandoned."

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The Court House looks so much better without that bandstand built in the middle of the front steps. Why would they block the front view. Why don't they move it to the left about 100 feet over in the grass area.

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